David Baldaro Weblog » AIR http://david.baldaro.me.uk David Baldaro's home on the Internet Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:38:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TweetDeck on Ubuntu http://david.baldaro.me.uk/2009/02/tweetdeck-on-ubuntu/ http://david.baldaro.me.uk/2009/02/tweetdeck-on-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:45:44 +0000 David Baldaro http://david.baldaro.me.uk/?p=134

For a while I have been using TweetDeck on my XP laptop to interact with Twitter. However I also have a ubuntu desktop which I commonly use as well; so I set up looking to see what Twitter clients there were for ubuntu. After a slightly fruitless search I stumbled back upon Adobe Air (which is what TweetDeck is developed using).

Could you install Adobe Air on ubuntu I thought? Sure came the answer.

david@george:~$ wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

david@george:~$ chmod a+x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

david@george:~$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

That will get and install Adobe AIR on ubuntu

david@george:~$ wget http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_21_5.air

I couldn’t find a command-line way of installing an Adobe AIR application, so the simplest way is to double-click on the .air file and install it through the Adobe AIE Application Installer. However once that is done, TweetDeck sits proud on the desktop and works! Yeah!

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